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Title:   No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes about Himself and our Way of Life in the Process
Participants:   Colin Beavan
In conversation with Judith Lewis, environmental reporter
Program Date:    9/23/2009
Program length:    1hr
Media Type:   MP3

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Podcast summary

No toilet paper! No plastic containers! No new clothes! No eating out! Beavan discusses-and screens film clips about-- his family's yearlong experiment to live a zero waste lifestyle in New York City.


Participant(s) Bio

Colin Beavan is the author of Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War and Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Mens' Journal, and many other national magazines. Beavan has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, and many other nationally syndicated NPR and commercial radio shows. He lives in New York City.

http://www.colinbeavan.com

Judith Lewis has written about technology, the arts, natural resource issues, public health and the environment in such publications as the LA Weekly, High Country News, WIRED, Salon, Sierra Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. She won a first-place Los Angeles Press Club award for her technology column, "Close to the Machine" and an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for her reporting on nuclear power and global warming. She is a member of the Society for Environmental Journalists, and is currently at work on a lay person's guide to nuclear energy.


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